In the Davis Cup matches at Philaadelphia the fact that the tail of Bobby Riggs' tennis shirt worked its wa; out of his trousers was as sidesplitting to the audience as if Charley Me-Carthy and Edgar Bergen had valked on the court and done their stuff.
A stray dog wandering across the fairway at golf tournament can re:
gallery to fits of laughter doesn't have to be a funny dog—it can be any kind of dog, from a properly groomed chow to a homeless mutt; but his appeal as a comic equal to that of a US$2,500 a week comedian.
I saw a World Series game halted—by the laughter of the spectators at nothing more comic than. the lighting of a pigeon in the infield. It was a normal pigeon and made a normal geon landing. It didn't stand on its hands or do the Lambeth Walk.
However, the crowd was uncontrollable with gaiety until the pigeon finally flew away to wherever pigeons fly when they leave 2 World Series game.
If the reaction of the crowd means anything, then the single funniest sight -|in the world is a torn pair of pants On a football player. From Califo: nia to Florida to Maine I have heard football crowds laugh themselves into semi-consciousness because a hard working halfback had had the misfortune to tear his trous peak of the laughter is alwa; ed when the unfortunate one's teammates form a circle about him while he puts on a new pair of untorn and unfunny breeches.
Any unexpected gesture by a champion athlete is considered extremely funny. A smile, a smirk, a wave, a nod—just anything slightly out of the ordinary—is cause enough for guffa: ing and applause.
Let Don Budge mimic Jack Bromwich's two-handed backhand in warm-up and the gallery nearly fall. out of the seats. Let Lefty Gomez make a head on slide and the customers laugh until their sides ache. Let Dempsey pretend to have trouble climbing over the ropes into the ring for an introduction and the place a shambles from laughter.
Trusting that most of you who read this are sports fans I will leave you in complete h: by asking you ith a tear in his pants, being chased tween a pigeon and a paper—United Press.
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